Final Jeopardy: 12-10 to 12-14-18
Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of December 10 through December 14, 2018.
Mon, Dec 10 – Correct answers: 2
2-WORD WORLD CAPITALS: From 1936 to 1941 this city was the capital of Italian East Africa show
Tue, Dec 11 – Correct answers: 2
BIBLE BOOKS: The title of this Old Testament book is from the Greek for “song sung to a harp” show
Wed, Dec 12 – Correct answers: 2
SCI-FI TV: One of the twin planets this alien race called home was Remus
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Thu, Dec 13 – Correct answers: 2 (out of 2 left in FJ)
19TH CENTURY AUTHORS: In the preface to a book of his stories, he thanks a herpetologist of Upper India & an elephant named Bahadur Shah show
Fri, Dec 14 – Correct answers: 3
Business & Industry: After it stopped U.S. operations in 2018, its website said, “Promise us just this one thing: Don’t ever grow up” show
It was looking like we would have another week where 2 players would get FJ every day, especially on Thursday when we didn’t even get to see if that one would have been a clean sweep. On Friday, however, the easiest FJ of the week presented itself and was duly solved by one and all.
It was an entire week of one-day champs. Monday’s returning champ, Staci Huffman was defeated by Francesco Caporusso. He lost to Nicole Cocklin on Tuesday. Elana Schor took over on Wednesday but went home on Thursday when Faris Alikhan prevailed. On Friday, Jackie Fuchs emerged victorious. Francesco had the top payday of the week but nobody got paid enough to make the Top 10 list.
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Last but not least, here’s Friday’s “Great Books on Audible” category from Jeopardy!’s youtube channel:
Actually I think neither one was extremely difficult. Maybe the “Bible” one, but if you eliminate the first 5 books and then consider that almost all others are named after a person (Esra,Judit,Ester …etc) it was not that hard either. But then I am R.C. and only about a quarter of Americans are R.C..Protestants with all the different denominations make up the majority. Interesting though that within 2 weeks we had a catholic related FJ.
Actually I think that the Catholicism category from the other week should just have been named “The Liturgy” because starting the calendar with Advent is not unique to Catholicism.
Certainly, the study of the Old Testament is not unique to Roman Catholics. Many Protestant denominations have weekly bible study classes.
But they asked for Andrew. the” first apostle”. The intro of the clue was kind of a distraction and promptly nobody got it. We had 2 x Peter, the apostle who comes to mind immediately, since Jesus said Peter was the rock He would build His church on . And as far as the Old Testament is concerned, you find a lot of it in the older Tanakh and the younger Qur’an.
Psalms however is a book read also by non-religious people but Andrew was somebody even catholics would have a hard time to come up with ( the feast day of Peter and Paul is June 29, nowhere near Advent).
Psalms had 2 correct, even Ecclesiastes was not THAT bad a guess since historians are split who wrote it. Quite a few attribute this book to Solomon as well, written in his old age (at least some of them, while David is credited with the majority ).
Whether they named the former FJ “Liturgy” or “Catholicism” did not matter: they asked for a CATHOLIC Saint by detour of Advent. The “liturgical year” was just an attempt to confuse things and obviously successfully. Another “form” of cross or a hint about Scotland (Scottish flag, Cross of St……) would have helped but would have made it a giveaway. As it was, Andrew got 0 correct, while Psalms 2 (and a third if you want).
There are many Anglican and Episcopalian churches and schools named St. Andrew’s. Anglican and Episcopalian liturgical calendars start with Advent, too
I don’t deny that. Just that “Psalms” is much better known to even non-religious people than St. Andrew. No matter whether you are catholic or a protestant of whatever denomination.